Every year, Earth Island Institute’s New Leaders Initiative selects six young people from North America for their outstanding work in activism,...
Jodie Geddes is helping shift the focus of justice from punishment to healing. As the Community Youth Organizing Coordinator for Restorative Justice...
The great energy transition is underway. Renewable electricity build-out is outpacing dirty projects. Global greenhouse gas emissions have...
How does a virtue become a vice? How does a basic building block of life turn into a threat to life? And how do you turn that vice back into a...
Ranchers, farmers, scientists, and food system activists share solutions, practices and the latest research on how carbon farming can play a...
By Mark Shepard Mark Shepard is the CEO of Forest Agriculture Enterprises who has developed a 106-acre polyculture farm by combining Permaculture,...
When the latest environmental devastation—a clearcut forest, a mountaintop mining site—breaks your heart, it's easy to sink into despair. Author...
Native American students face racism throughout their education, from racist mascots to the historical erasure of the American genocide from...
Rebecca Burgess and Fibershed are building a regional economy that connects ranches producing wool with artisan clothing manufactures. Fibershed’s...
By Janaki Jagannath Janaki Jagannath is an advocate for farmworkers who, as the former Coordinator of the Community Alliance for Agroecology, works...
If you're anything like us, you need an occasional break from the steady grind of political news to focus on solutions and to find inspiration. As...
Calling someone an “animal” means they’re less than human – not worthy of respect, rights, or even of life itself. But in truth -- and in...